Acceptability of automatic referrals to supportive and palliative care by patients living with advanced lung cancer: qualitative interviews and a co-design process.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Timely access to supportive and palliative care (PC) remains a challenge. A proposed solution is to trigger an automatic referral process to PC by pre-determined clinical criteria. This study sought to co-design with patients and providers an automatic PC referral process for patients newly diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.

Methods

In Step 1 of this work, nine one on one phone interviews were conducted with advanced lung cancer patients on their perspectives on the acceptability of phone contact by a specialist PC provider triggered by an automatic referral process. Interviews were thematically analysed. Step 2: Patient advisors, healthcare providers (oncologists, nurses from oncology and PC, clinical social worker, psychologist), and researchers were invited to j

SUBMITTER: Ahmed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10985851 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature